Equal candidates for handling the current request (HEAD / GET)

I have just migrated a very outdated Spring backend to Spring 5 and with it upgraded CXF to first 3.3.2 and just now 3.3.3. I have a REST service class defining two different methods with the same path defined via javax.ws.rs.Path annotation, differentiated by javax.ws.rs.HEAD and javax.ws.rs.GET annotations. Both methods are annotated with @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM).

When this method is called I get (redacted):

WARN [JAXRSUtils.compare:129] Both ServiceRestImpl#getFile and ServiceRestImpl#getFileAsHeadRequest are equal candidates for handling the current request which can lead to unpredictable results

The differentiation works: HEAD requests are handled by the @HEAD annotated method and GET requests by the @GET annotated one (this has always worked). Therefore the warning is false but will severely clutter production log output, possibly affect performance.

Relevant dependencies:

• Spring framework 5.1.8
• "org.apache.cxf", "cxf-rt-rs-service-description", "3.3.3"
• "javax.servlet", "javax.servlet-api", "4.0.1"
• "javax.ws.rs", "javax.ws.rs-api", "2.0.1"

I'd appreciate support. May be linked to:

• CXF-7670
• CXF-6684